While it’s OK for a journalist to snap photos and speak his mind about what’s happening on the ground in Iraq (see Kevin Site’s Blog), this National Guardsman’s honest talk about his experiences there have reportedly drawn the ire of THE MAN. BoingBoing reports on the demotion of guardsman Jason Hartley due to refusal to obey a command (stop blogging) and violation of OPSEC (operational security). Read his email about the whole process, and check out his blog – it’s a very good read.
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Don’t be a Playa Hater
Halo 2 – The greatest thing since sliced bread, right? We’ve heard it all. 9.4 rating from Gamespot editorial, 9.0 from their users. A whopping 9.8 from IGN edit, and 9.5 from their readers and their survey of other media types. Well, Halo 2 doesn’t completely float my boat. I do like it for short bouts. It’s run, gun and run some more in multiplayer, and while entertaining, doesn’t have quite the subtle gameplay I think it’s capable of. Well, in an enourmous review, this fellow offers up the most honest review of Halo 2 you’ll ever see. Take a gander – it weighs in at over 7,000 words, but it’s worthwhile.
Ice Storm
Atlanta was hit by a major ice storm which began Friday night and continued into Saturday, and the lingering affects continue into Sunday. I’ve posted a gallery of images taken around our house – I didn’t venture too far out as (a) I am still recovering from a nasty cold and (b) the roads were close to impassable with over one inch of solid ice. Amy’s baby shower was postponed 24 hours due to the weather, and the Atlanta Symphony concert and dinner we’d planned to attend with my Mom, visiting from Savannah, were also cancelled. But the party will go on today, and mom’s flight to West Palm Beach to visit her sister Hilda will be on Monday, instead of today.
RSS Madness
This is a site update. I’ve added a pretty slick feature to Trotz.com, a set of (for now) four headline aggregation pages, implemented with the spiffy PHP program ‘zFeeder‘. Listed on the left rail of most pages of the site under ‘B L O G R O L L’, these pages assemble RSS feeds from some of my favorite sites. It’s a whole lot easier to check out these sites here, and visit headlines I’m interested in. Check them out, and let me know what you think.
The categories include:
DailyGeekOut: Sites like BoingBoing, Engadget, Gizmodo, TheFeature, Screenhead, etc.
News Feeds: Includes feeds from CNN.com and SI.com (where I work), The New York Times, The Boston Globe, etc. Easy way to glance at the top news of the moment.
Mac News: As a big Mac-geek, I need my daily dose of Mac news, tips and rumors. So here it is. Macslash, TUAW, etc. Good stuff.
MCE Feeds: I’ve been fooling around with Windows XP Media Center Edition for a while now, so this page lets me keep up with The Green Button, various Microsoft employee blogs, and hardware/software news from the gadget sites.
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